Pavlidis, Georges

alexei-Poludnenko

Associate Professor, School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Manufacturing Engineering

Email alexei.poludnenko@uconn.edu
Phone (860) 486-2293
Mailing Address School of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Connecticut, 191 Auditorium Rd. U-3139, Storrs, CT 06269
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Brief Bio

Dr. Alexei Poludnenko received his Bachelor degree in Physics and Mathematics from the National University “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Rochester. Upon graduation, he joined the Department of Energy ASC Flash Center at the University of Chicago as a postdoctoral researcher. Subsequently, Dr. Poludnenko worked at the Naval Research Laboratory first as a National Research Council postdoctoral fellow and later as a permanent research staff member. Prior to joining the UConn Department of Mechanical Engineering in the Fall of 2019, he had served as an associate professor on the faculty of the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the Texas A&M University. His research includes theoretical and computational studies of complex multi-physics reacting and non-reacting flows, numerical algorithm development for computational fluid dynamics, and high-performance computing.

Dr. Poludnenko was a recipient of the Distinguished Paper Awards at the 36th and 37th International Symposia on Combustion (2017 and 2019), the 2016 François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics, and the Alan Berman Research Publication Award of the US Naval Research Laboratory.

  • First-principles Modeling of Modern Jet-Engine Combustors with Petascale Computations: Real Jet Fuels, Real Jet-Engine Conditions
  • Catastrophic Transitions in Reacting Turbulence: Spontaneous Formation of Detonations
  • The Cross-Scale Physical-Space Transfer of Kinetic Energy in Turbulent Premixed Flames, O’Brien, J., Towery, C.A.Z., Hamlington, P.E., Ihme, M., Poludnenko, A.Y., Urzay, J., Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 2016, in press
  • Spectral Kinetic Energy Transfer in Turbulent Premixed Reacting Flows, Towery, C.A.Z., Poludnenko, A.Y., Urzay, J., O’Brien, J., Ihme, M., Hamlington, P.E., Physical Review E, 2016, 93, 053115
  • Pulsating Instability and Self-acceleration of Fast Turbulent Flames, Poludnenko, A.Y., 2015, Physics of Fluids, 27, 014106
  • Transverse Waves Resulting from Pulsating Instability of Two-Dimensional Flames, Gamezo, V.N., Poludnenko, A.Y., Oran, E.S., Williams, F.A., 2014, Combustion and Flame, 161, 950
  • Intermittency in Premixed Turbulent Reacting Flows, Hamlington, P.E., Poludnenko, A.Y., Oran, E.S., 2012, Physics of Fluids, 24, 075111
  • Interactions Between Turbulence and Flames in Premixed Reacting Flows, Hamlington, P.E., Poludnenko, A.Y., Oran, E.S., 2011, Physics of Fluids, 23, 125111
  • Spontaneous Transition of Turbulent Flames to Detonations in Unconfined Media, Poludnenko, A.Y., Gardiner, T. A., Oran, E.S., 2011, Physical Review Letters, 107, 054501
  • The Interaction of High-Speed Turbulence with Flames: Turbulent Flame Speed, Poludnenko, A.Y., Oran, E.S., 2011, Combustion and Flame, 158, 301
  • The Interaction of High-Speed Turbulence with Flames: Global Properties and Internal Flame Structure, Poludnenko, A.Y., Oran, E.S., 2010, Combustion and Flame, 157, 995
  • Computation of Fluid Flows in Non-inertial Contracting, Expanding, and Rotating Reference Frames, Poludnenko, A.Y., Khokhlov, A.M., 2007, Journal of Computational Physics, 220, 678
  • Shock Propagation in Deuterium-Tritium-Saturated Foam, Collins, T.J.B., Poludnenko, A.Y., Cunningham, A., Frank, A., 2005, Physics of Plasmas, 12, 062705
  • Evolution and Fragmentation of Wide-Angle Wind Driven Molecular Outflows, Cunningham, A., Frank, A., Varnière, P., Poludnenko, A.Y., Mitran, S., Hartmann, L., 2005, Astrophysics and Space Science, 298, 317
  • Strings in the h Carinae Nebula: Hypersonic Radiative Cosmic Bullets, Poludnenko, A.Y., Frank, A., Mitran, S., 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 613, 387
  • A Laboratory Investigation of Supersonic Clumpy Flows: Experimental Design and Theoretical Analysis, Poludnenko, A.Y., Dannenberg, K.K., Drake, R.P., Frank, A., Knauer, J., Meyerhofer, D.D., Furnish, M., Asay, J.R., 2004, Astrophysical Journal, 604, 213
  • Hydrodynamic Interaction of Strong Shocks with Inhomogeneous Media. I. Adiabatic Case, Poludnenko A.Y., Frank, A., Blackman, E.G., 2002, Astrophysical Journal, 576, 832